Business Owner Demography, Human Capital, and Social Networks

Martin Ruef, Bart Bonikowski and Howard E. Aldrich
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Martin Ruef: Stanford Graduate School of Business and the University of North Carolina
Bart Bonikowski: Princeton University
Howard E. Aldrich: University of Michigan

Chapter Chapter 6 in New Firm Creation in the United States, 2009, pp 95-114 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract While early work on the topic of entrepreneurship tended to portray entrepreneurs as heroic individuals (e.g., see Raines & Leathers, 2000, on Schumpeter’s description), more recent perspectives have come to recognize that new business activity is often initiated by groups of startup owners. Starting in the late 1980s and early 1990s, a new generation of scholars in the entrepreneurship field called for a systematic program of research that would document the prevalence of startup teams, describe their properties, and assess their impact on business performance (e.g., Gartner, Shaver, Gatewood, & Katz, 1994; Kamm, Shuman, Seeger, & Nurick, 1990). In a review of developments in entrepreneur research and theory, Gartner et al. (1994) noted that “the ‘entrepreneur’ in entrepreneurship is more likely to be plural, rather than singular” (p. 6). They offered an expansive definition of startup teams, which included owners, investors, organizational decision-makers, family members, advisors, critical suppliers, and buyers as possible candidates for the role of “entrepreneur.”

Keywords: Business Owner; Institutional Owner; Nascent Entrepreneur; Network Constraint; Functional Diversification (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-09523-3_6

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